What is the “Secret Program?”

This is opinion here; I’m not going to annotate it with all of the “evidence” that backs me up. Bush’s controversial secret program, started in 2001, is listening on, analyzing, or recording just about ANY electronic communication that either goes in or out of the United States, crossing the borders. This is directly forbidden in the law. They are scooping up first, then sifting later using “data mining” techniques, and when they find a “suspicious” needle in the haystack, Bush retroactively sometimes asks for a standard FISA warrant. Bush and Rice keep making a distinction between “detection” (their new program) and “monitoring” (using FISA warrants) whenever they speak. Well, that is why. This is not something that “Congress would have approved anyway”; they are violating first and then justifying it later. And that is the very least of it.